As of January 2024, Morocco registered approximately 21.3 million social media users. This was an decrease from 24 million in the preceding year. In recent years, the usage of social media in Morocco has followed an upward trend.
Increasing internet usage
In 2022, the number of internet users in Morocco reached a total of 31.6 million. This represented a penetration rate of 84 percent. The number grew annually in recent years. In 2017, in comparison, around 20.2 million people used the internet in the country. Additionally, 93 percent of the households in the country had internet access as of 2023, increasing from 72 percent in 2017. Morocco ranks among the countries with the highest number of internet users in Africa.
Mobile connections and subscriptions
As of 2022, there were more than 48 million mobile connections in Morocco, most of which were pre-paid connections. Around 90 percent of Moroccan respondents in a survey indicated that they used smartphones to access the internet regularly in 2020. Similarly, in the same year, 134 mobile cellular subscriptions were registered per 100 inhabitants, which indicated a rising mobile subscription tendency, compared to 123 subscriptions per 100 population in 2017.
Total number of active social media users in Morocco from 2017 to 2024
(in millions)
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DataReportal, Hootsuite, We Are Social. (2024). Total number of active social media users in Morocco from 2017 to 2024 (in millions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 31, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1172771/number-of-social-media-users-morocco/
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